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\section{Atmosphere}
Before delving into calculations, we had to make several key assumptions and determine our desired terraforming conditions. We
approximated assumed the atmosphere
as to be an isotropic ideal
gas. The gas, and chose to fix the terraformed surface temperature at 220 K. Using our 1 bar surface pressure terraforming condition, the ideal gas law, and scale height equation, we calculated surface conditions for TerraMars and compared those values to Mars’s current
atmosphere surface conditions.
We also chose the chemical composition of
Mars our new TerrAtmosphere. Mars’s current atmosphere is 96\%
$CO_2$, CO2, so
drastically changing it would be unrealistic to make the
chemical composition with only surface
materials from Mars is unrealistic. If we vaporize air breathable to humans using water
ice in the poles, what would be vapor alone. Since we are estimating the minimum amount of
energy required to terraform Mars, we decided to fix our TerrAtmosphere goal and calculate the additional mass and energy needed to obtain our desired TerrAtmosphere composition of 70\% C02, 26\% H20 vapor, and 4\% everything else, including nitrogen, oxygen, and argon. This is certainly a large amount of water
vapor needed? vapor, but it would allow for precipitation and potentially better conditions for bringing terrestrial plants to Mars.